Post your unpopular royal family opinions?

[DreamyPombear]

I will start
I prefer Harry to william

In a nutshell, @Hughs ? No.

i completely agree with this. I was in London at the time, there was huge grief voyeurism. Watch the footage of the people at Buckingham Palace on the day before the funeral, they are delighted that William and Harry came out to see the crowds and the flowers.

Working in London and trying to get any work done….fuck me, the performative grief of some of the staff. I got out of London for the funeral and spent a calm weekend with friends equally un-enamoured with the Diana hysteria. Mind you, I was not a fan of hers anyway, always too much drama, reminded me of my narc mother (who loved her, naturally).

Of course it's conjecture in my mind. As are posts from probably you and many others on this and other subjects. It's what I think. An opinion. Which is what a discussion forum is about, n'est ce pas?
Opinions.

yes, he does look like Henry VIII, doesn't he? The similarity is uncanny!

Yes!

2 memories which stick in my mind from that time:

The woman who was sacked because, several months after Diana's death, she was still coming into work and sobbing all day long, every day. I don't blame her employers. (Sorry I haven't got a link for this - will try to google).

An interview with a Diana supporter (middle-aged woman, should have known better) who was placing flowers at the gates of KP. She was spitting bile about Camilla - you could see real hatred there. I was shocked at the strength of her feelings about someone who wasn't even a relation!

It was a crazy time, and quite frightening. The strength of raw emotion which people displayed hadn't been seen in the UK (on the telly, anyway) before. I'm not sure it was, or is, a good thing, personally. Stiff upper lip all the way, for me.

Does anyone actually know what the boys' opinion of walking behind the coffin was? But my goodness, what a tough day for them it must have been. There are no words.

Were the public consulted?

There were plenty of vox pop interviews at the time. Most of them thoroughly nauseating.

Some of the public wanted to see William and Harry. But there was a lot of public disquiet about them walking behind the coffin. We were all told at the time the boys wanted to do this. I have no idea if that is true or not.

I agree. But I think their ages were what made it so difficult - if they'd been just little boys, that would have been clear-cut. If they'd been over 18, then there would have been no controversy about them walking in public as they did.

They were both at that awkward teenage/man-boy age and possibly had mixed feelings themselves. They probably felt they wanted to do it to honour their mother, but the actual walk was surely extremely gruelling emotionally.

I think, when they look back, they'd be glad they did it. At the time - not so much!

@CoffeeCantata I agree.

It was a crazy time and very very weird. I remember watching it on a small portable TV in my kitchen, whilst my little kids were running riot. I will admit I cried but the whole thing was so moving, and I cry at sad films, that's me.

I just remember so much the flowers being thrown at the funeral hearses and the windscreens nearly blocked out with flowers. And me thinking 'who ARE all these people, why are they doing this?'

Having experienced a very similar tragedy I found it quite moving but really that was because we had been through similar as a family. But privately. Not with strangers hysterically crying and weeping and wailing.
It was so so odd.

BustingBaoBun · Today 14:32

I totally get it!

I was never a huge Diana fan (as I'm not a Meghan fan now - I think they attract the same demographic, but that's another thread...) but I did cry when the hearse was making its slow progress along the M! out of London. I thought 'well, she was a girl from the English shires, and now she's going back to where she came from'. It made all the years in between her first bashful entry into public life and her sad end seem very poignant.

I care as much for them as they do for me.

She was a public figure, and whether you are interested in the Royal Family or not, she was part of the national conscienceness. (sp?) Plus, if you remember, we'd had a summer's worth of Di n' Dodi stuffed down our throats, then suddenly she's dead. In Paris, where I lived, it was just as bad. Strangers would sob on my shoulder. A colleague, who was mid flight when the accident happened, arrived at Niagara Falls , and she said that everyone was sobbing, and she had no idea why.

I've said here before that I know someone who got married on the day of Diana's funeral and was asked by several people (happily not those who were attending) whether she would cancel her wedding as "a mark of respect". Bloody expensive and inconvenient mark of respect!
I thought the whole event was extremely vulgar.
I certainly didn't cry.

I was sitting on a plane at LHR and the engines had started. They then shut down at the hour - was it 11am ? And there was I think a 3 minute silence.

No answer to this @AvrielFinch ?

@sausawyee I wouldn't "slag off" George's outfits. I do think putting him in a suit/blazer and tie for a football match is utterly, utterly ridiculous.

To me there is a difference between criticising the children's looks/behaviour which I think is totally unacceptable and criticising their clothing which is really criticising their parents as they don't get free choice of what they wear.

(I think their clothing is fine - but I did chuckle at "geography teacher")

If George wore an England shirt I would be furious. I'm Scottish. The blazer and tie avoids all that

When they've been criticised for this before it's turned out they were in a hospitality section with a dress code - you or I wouldn't be allowed in in a football shirt. Presumably they'd make an exception for him, but then that's not great either.

No idea if that was the case at the Euros, but it's plausible.

It's just another thing that H and M supporters want to say to get at the RF. Funnily enough H and M dress the young one in what some on here would describe as old fashioned blah blah. T bar sandals and a collared dress. That's ok though as it's them 🙄

@derxa "If George wore an England shirt I would be furious. I'm Scottish. The blazer and tie avoids all that"

I don't think he should wear an England shirt-although the other two did on Insta. I think he should have worn smart jeans or chinos and a polo shirt. No big deal-just my opinion.

@sausawyee "It's just another thing that H and M supporters want to say to get at the RF. "

That is SERIOUSLY unhinged!